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The Big City (1928 film)

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Director
  
Tod Browning

Duration
  

Editor
  
Irving Thalberg

Language
  
Silent

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Genre
  
Crime

Costume design
  
Lucia Coulter

Country
  
United States

The Big City (1928 film) Still from the 1928 silent film The Big City The film is lost

Release date
  
March 24, 1928 (1928-03-24)

Writer
  
Tod Browning (story), Waldemar Young (scenario)

Genres
  
Silent film, Crime Fiction, Black-and-white

Cast
  
Lon Chaney
,
Betty Compson
,
Matthew Betz

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The Big City is a 1928 American silent crime film directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney.

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The film is a lost film. The film was found in UCLA Film and Television Archive. The last known print of the film had been sent to Australia in the late 1950s. The film was returned to MGM and placed in their vaults where it perished in the same vault fire that also claimed London After Midnight in 1967. A short trailer for the film survives at Cinémathèque française in France, but it does not include any footage from the film.

Cast

  • Lon Chaney as Chuck Collins
  • Marceline Day as Helen
  • Matthew Betz as Red
  • Betty Compson as Sunshine
  • John George as The Arab
  • James Murray as Curly
  • Virginia Pearson as Tennessee
  • Walter Percival as Grogan
  • Lew Short as O'Hara
  • Eddie Sturgis as Blinkie
  • Nora Cecil as Landlady (uncredited)
  • Clinton Lyle as Gangster (uncredited)
  • Della Peterson as Dancer (uncredited)
  • George H. Reed as Black Waiter (uncredited)
  • References

    The Big City (1928 film) Wikipedia
    The Big City (1928 film) IMDb